The chapter opens with a conversation between a young man and a young woman. The young man tells the woman that he wants to meet her, and the woman agrees to meet him. The man tells her that he has a strange power that allows him to hear and speak with sound rather than with sound waves. He also has a special ability that he calls "psychome try" , in which he can pick up the memories of people he has met. He tells the young woman that if he causes her death, he will not be able to work for the bureau again.